Category Archives: News and Current Events

Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Posted on Thursday - October 18, 2007 by Dr. Jeff McQuillan

There is an old joke that people at work sometimes say to each other: Are you working hard or hardly working? To work hard means to work with seriousness, to work a great deal, to work a lot. To hardly … Continue reading →

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Hottest Ticket in Town

Posted on Tuesday - October 16, 2007 by Dr. Lucy Tse

One of the hottest tickets or most popular performances in Los Angeles this month is to Shakespeare–yes, you read that correctly–Shakespeare. Ian McKellen, the highly respected British actor, is coming to town to perform in a production of Shakespeare’s King … Continue reading →

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Who is Middle Class?

Posted on Tuesday - October 9, 2007 by Dr. Lucy Tse

A big news story in the Los Angeles Times last week was an exposé (a news report of something surprising or shocking) about the leader of the California assembly, the committee that makes the state’s laws. The reporter wrote that … Continue reading →

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